Roll Tide Roll…

Confession: I am not a football fan. It’s not that I hate the sport as much as I find it incredibily difficult to sit through it for FOUR hours. Don’t think I’m not a sports fan. I love basketball (not really much of a choice marrying a basketball athlete, haha). But football is just sooooo boring! Plus it’s outside so it’s nearly always too hot or too cold.

Saturday A-Day!

However, I live in the Southern United States. It is so part of the culture here. Christopher watches football some just to keep up with conversation with friends, but he doesn’t really have a team [other than the Bears, but we’re talking about college football here]. My sister, Holly, and her family are all HUGE Alabama fans. And so we cheer for Bama on the rare occasions we watch games to support my sis. But now we’ve decided to put a stake in a team. So I do believe that we are Bama fans now… I think… :P

Us at the stadium!

So this weekend we went to visit one of my old college roomies. She happens to be in grad school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama home of the Crimson Tide. She also is a major Bama fan so I heard a lot about Alabama’s football team over the 4 years I knew her.

Mary and I as seniors in college (Fall 07). We worked together (notice our super fly uniforms, name tags, and head sets) and sometimes we spent some serious time goofing off and dancing. ;)

Getting to hang out with Mary and her sister, Abbey, this weekend was so great! :)

Us with all our Bama influences

My sister, Holly, and I watching the Alabama scrimmage

Christopher compares his hand size to Tyler Watt’s

Every where we travel we always pick up an ornament for our Christmas tree… this little place was cute.

Look at our cute little Bama snowman! He plays the fight song and says “Roll Tide!”

Another thing we always do when visiting a place, is check out the local food. This place was super delicious!

Us waiting outside the Waysider. The place was packed the whole time we were there and there were always people waiting for tables. Definitely a good sign of tasty food!

The Waysider had all you can eat biscuits that come with anything you order. They were so tiny and cute and amazingly scrumptious!

My breakfast from the Waysider. Oh my gracious, it was DELISH! Well, except the grits, but that’s just because I’m not a grits person.

Christopher’s breakfast. That’s meat stuff is called steak o’lean and it is the saltiest thing I’ve tasted. He said it was okay and worth having once, but he probably wouldn’t order it again.

Speaking of food – we nearly always try to stop at Panera for breakfast while traveling. We LOVE their bagels!

Aaaand of course… our jumping shot!

We had a great time experiencing A-Day for the first time and getting to hang out with my sister, brother-in-law, and old college friends.

Looks like you had an awesome time and I’m envious of the nice weather! It was raining all weekend here but I still had a great time at my track formal :D
I have never tried a bagel from Panera, good to know that they are among your favorites!

Yeah I’m not a sports fan I’m afraid and prob would have no clue about what was going home as we have soccer here :) Good for you getting involved tho, nice to bond! Love the jumping pic at the end, looks like you jumped really far lol.

What a great weekend! I’m not a huge fan of football (or really any sports) either. A bunch of guys running after a ball for four hours sounds like no fun. Watching crazed fans, however, is a lot of fun.

Hmm Gridiron. I’m probably one of a handful of girls in my country that have a vague understanding of the rules. It’s an upandcoming sport here. It’ll never replave Union and the All Blacks, but there’s an interest. My brother’s been playing. So I get forced to watch the Superbowl. And he gets to skip school to watch it.

Ooh I had friends in grad school who were huge All Blacks fans! They had the cutest little onesie that was an All Blacks jersey lookalike for their daughter. And that is the extent of my knowledge of Rugby, haha!

What an amazing weekend. I’m not really into the whole sports thing and neither is my bf which is kinda weird but good I guess haha No fights over the TV :D I celebrated my boyfriend’s bday with some pizza and home made oreo pie this weekend :P

Love your jumping picures! I’m convinced that if the fiance and I even tried something like that one or both of us would end up with a broken ankle! Probably me – the clumsy one!

I love discovering cute local food places – it’s usually where the best foods at anyway! I ate at this little B&B in Vermont that claimed to have the “world’s best breakfast.” Had to stop at that one. Not the best breakfast ever, but I feel cooler for saying I ate there! ;)

I completely understand that. The only time I’ve ever really cared about football was when Christopher played flag football for intramurals in college. It helps to know the players for sure. I get more invested that way. So now I just have to get to know these Crimson Tide players…

Oooh, I have to say Australian Rules Football is too awesome! It’s a shorter game and they don’t use helmets or planet-sized padding! Come to Melbourne and catch a game, I reckon you guys would love it!

Confession: I was born in Mobile tho did not live there long. An obscure fact about me! I am not a football fan either. The food… An acquired taste :). Looks like you had a fabulous time. You’re simply gorgeous!

“So I do believe that we are Bama fans now… I think… :P” Hahaha, great! :D

Four hours is *looooong*! 8O I don’t watch a lot of sports (only the football (soccer) games of the German national team in world’s or European championship, but those only last 90 minutes, and I usually watch them on tv with friends … It’s a funny kind of social gathering with beer and lots of cheering), but my mom is a sports watcher, especially biathlon and olympics, and tennis a few years ago (in the Boris Becker and Steffi Graf era). However, I have a hard time sitting still for more than half an hour. Even a movie is often hard for me. At the movie theater, it’s often easier because then there’s lights off and the special atmosphere, but when I watch a movie at home, I’m always happy for the ads breaks so I can jump up and move and get something to drink etc.

awesome weekend Rach! btw I tried Panera’s cinnamon bagel the other day and although it’s super dessert-y, it was bomb……I was missing out on their bagels! I think I like bagels now haha. I had an awesome weekend too! busy on Sunday getting ready for a Linguistics symposium Monday. But best part–my sis chose to get baptized! She received the Lord into her life really recently! whooowhooo God is so good. :D

Girl! You are an honorary Bama fan now!! In proud company with YOURS TRULY! Cute cute shots! I can’t believe you were at the A-day Game! We usually go, but my best friend had a “gender reveal” party on that day so we didn’t make it. Now I’m just reflecting on a missed opportunity for us to bump into each other and have a random blogger friend meetup in Tuscaloosa. ;) HA!

Aww that would’ve been SO cool! And I gotta say I love that you ended with “Roll Tide”… we got indoctrinated into the “say ‘Roll Tide’ to anyone and everyone one wearing Bama’s insignia no matter where you are” this weekend. My bro-in-law travels for his work and he’s had people as far away as Hawaii and California say “Roll Tide” when they see his Bama tie or dress shirt. ;) Love it! :)

And hey, we can totally have another random meet up somewhere! We come through AL a lot since my family lives down there! :)